Video Game

System:	BBC Micro / Electron
Title:	Frak!
Publisher:	Aardvark Software
Country:	UK
Date:	1984
Media Format:	Tape
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Description: Tape

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rklrkl64 24th Sep 2023		It's quite possible that my cracked copy of Frak! was passed around the UK quite a bit - the copy protection was mildly fun to crack and, yes, I quickly came across the Captain Pugwash tune in the BASIC preloader. I was writing a tape-to-disk copier in 6502 at the time (I'm not sure I gave anyone a copy of that back then!), so naturally I rewrote Orlando's code in 6502 and made it interrupt-driven too. Result: A toggleable option in my copier to play the Captain Pugwash theme in the background while the copier was reading the tape device and writing to disk in the foreground. A suitably ironic re-use I thought :-)



Folker 19th Jun 2021		Enjoyed semi-legendary status among Beeb users, not least due to it playing the Captain Pugwash theme (a.k.a. Trumpet Hornpipe) when crude attempts were made to "pirate" the game. In fact, the program to play the Pugwash music was itself ripped and circulating in BBC-owning circles, at the time.

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